The Iceman Cometh
Iceman Cometh, The
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Date Written: 1939
First Performance: 1946, New York
Published: 1946
Genre: Trag. in 4 acts
Setting: Rooming house in New York, 1912
Cast: 16m, 3f
Harry Hope's saloon is filled with down-and-outs, who habitually sit drinking while dreaming of the past and future. Apart from Harry himself, who has not gone outdoors for 20 years, there are: Larry Slade, a cynical anarchist, the philosopher of the group, who believes that their pipe dreams are all that keep them going; Joe Mott, an African-American, who once owned a gambling house; Hugo Kalmar, former newspaper editor; Rocky Pioggi, a pimp; two army officers, who fought on opposing sides in the Boer War; Jimmy Cameron, a correspondent who covered that war; a graduate of Harvard Law...
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